Improvement in gloves



C. 1. BROWN. Improvement in Gloves. N'o.128,530. Patentedmyznsn.

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UNITED STATES PATET OFFICE.

CLARK J. BROWN, OF PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,530, dated July 2,1872.

To allpersons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, CLARK J. BROWN, of Plymouth, of the county ofGrafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Gloves or Mittens and do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specication and represented in theaccompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 denotes a side view of the mainbody-piece of a glove with the thumb mouth slit as formed therein. Fig.2 is a side view of the thumb-piece as formed to complete, with the slitand part or parts adjacent, the thumb. Fig. 3 is an outer-side view ofthe thumb; Fig. 4, an inner-side view of it.

In carrying out my invention I form, in the main body part B of theglove, at the place for the thumb, a slit, S, having the form of asemi-elliptical arc or an approximation thereto, the same being asshown. Next, I cut the thumb -piece C substantially in the shape asexhibited in Fig. 2, and stitch the edge a y o of it to the concave edgea y c of the slit. I also stitch the edge a a: b of the thumb-piece tothe convex edge a b of the Iiap or part A bounded by the slit. l Next,I' turn 0r fold back the edge b c of the thumb piece C and sew it to thepart b o of the edge b cy a of the slit..

Next, the thumb-piece is to be folded at h, so

las to bring the edges z' and 7c together, and

they are to be connected by sewing. A welt may be introduced into eachseam in order to finish it. In this manner the thumb of a glove can beformed or produced in a very economical manner, thereby saving all ormost of the leather which is usually wasted, by forming the main bodypiece ofthe glove with an elliptical or oval-shaped opening to receivethe

